Friday 10th March 2017

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 6:59 am

Morning

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ma ... questions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 7:00 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39220527" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Heads 'cut exam courses amid funding squeeze'

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 7:03 am

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... negotiator" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Let Britons keep freedom of movement, says EU's Brexit negotiator

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 7:11 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-39226133" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Surrey County Council 'sweetheart deal' row escalates

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ty-council" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 7:19 am

Damn,the meter is reading £500 an hour,better switch off.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 7:42 am

HindleA wrote:Damn,the meter is reading £500 an hour,better switch off.

I resent the implication that we're not worth every penny.

Post by **adam** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 8:13 am

PorFavor wrote:
HindleA wrote:Damn,the meter is reading £500 an hour,better switch off.

I resent the implication that we're not worth every penny.

I, on the other hand, will ramp it up to a grand if you don't promise to destroy the negatives.

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 8:45 am

HindleA wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-39226133

Surrey County Council 'sweetheart deal' row escalates

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ty-council" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How's Jonathan Lord not getting battered in the press about this?

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 9:07 am

Is it cynical to wonder about the sudden referencing of the police, Rahman and electoral fraud by the BBC?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 9:30 am

https://www.theguardian.com/housing-net ... ond-budget" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Scrapping housing benefit for 18-year-olds? The Tories have Cone Syndrome
Dawn Foster

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 9:33 am

Good morfternoon.

(I thought I'd better say that before I have to put another £100 in the meter.)

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 9:34 am

Morning all. More important than it looks is this one...

Exclusive: DfE declares ceasefire in war on university teacher-training departments

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/br ... r-training

After years of attacks on "so-called progressive" university teacher-training departments a senior official says DfE is now adopting a "pragmatic" approach
The Department for Education has ended its "focus" on school-led initial teacher-training in favour of a "pragmatic" approach that embraces university led courses, according to a senior official.

The new approach marks a major change in tone and follows years of attacks from Conservative education ministers on "so called progressive" university education departments that they have described as "The Blob" and accused of peddling outdated orthodoxy.

Now the DfE’s head of teacher supply, Ben Ramm, has said he wants to rebut the suggestion that the department focused exclusively on school-led teacher training.

“I think that was a narrative that was true for a number of years,” he said at a Westminster Education conference in London last week.

“I think that we have seen significant changes in the department over the last year or so.

“We now have an approach that I would describe as pragmatic rather than focused on any specific structural preference for school-led or university led-ITT.

I fought the Blob and the Blob won?

Gove's attacks on people and institutions who he saw were standing in his way were a disgrace.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 10:05 am

Oops.

First academy trust to lose its schools over poor standards

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first ... -rz67nqpf0

An education charity has become the first academy sponsor to give up all its state-funded schools after concerns that standards were unacceptably poor and its financial position was “unsustainable”.

The Education Fellowship Trust, which ran 12 schools with 6,500 pupils in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire and Maidenhead, is the largest academy chain to be in effect dissolved because of poor performance.

Five of its schools are rated inadequate by Ofsted and another three have been deemed to require improvement, with only four rated good by inspectors.

All 12 schools taken on inside a period of 12 months in 2012-3.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 10:12 am

Excuse ignorance,what happens to the pupils/staff/buildings or is it just lose Academy status.How is funding,running them now change?

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 10:19 am

HindleA wrote:Excuse ignorance,what happens to the pupils/staff/buildings or is it just lose Academy status.How is funding,running them now change?

The Regional Schools Commissioners (civil servants) will be asked to find new sponsors for them. This might be a bit tricky for the nine that are in Northamptonshire and less so for the two in Wiltshire and the other in Maidenhead.

This was from last year.

http://schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-trust- ... stigation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

An academy trust has been ordered to close a linked commercial company and “closely monitor” its finances following an investigation by the Education Funding Agency, its second in the space of three years.

The Education Fellowship Trust has been warned that its current organisational model is “not acceptable” and does not confirm to model articles of association for multi-academy trusts or provide assurance that resources were managed “in an effective and proper manner”.

It follows an earlier investigation of the trust by the EFA in 2014, which highlighted concerns over governors’ expenses of £45,000, a fact-finding trip to New York and unadvertised jobs that went to family members. A financial notice to improve issued to the trust at the time was lifted last April, but the organisation is now subject to a new notice following the latest probe.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 10:20 am

Thankyou.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 10:34 am

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... yed-budget" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No rights, more tax: this is Conservative ‘fairness’ for the self-employed
Frances O'Grady

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:03 am

So when it came to her own election Osamor says “so many people were rooting for me”.

“So many people wanted me to do well. It meant a lot to them because they knew on one level the representation for black women in parliament is almost zero. Diane Abbott was on her own for a long time. Dawn Butler came in and then she lost her seat and she had to fight to get back in. Dawn’s journey was hard,” she says.

“They are two really great sisters, I’ve got a lot of time for them, I am always there for them and they are there for me. Its 100%. There are three of us.

“It’s not fair. It’s not enough. It means you’ve always got to get on. You can’t fall out,” she laughs, before quickly becoming serious.”It’s just the three of us. It’s wrong. It shouldn’t be like that. It should be multi-faith, multi-coloured.

There is one area where Osamor is more open to the idea of parachuting in candidates - when it comes to increasing the number of BAME MPs. White people, she argues, will vote for a non-white candidate - but they need to be given the opportunity to do so.

The party has recognised it has a problem with a lack of non-white MPs, Osamor says. But recognising the problem is not the same as fixing it. The key, she argues, is forcing change on local parties – the people who choose the candidates. “We have to say to selection panels: ‘Your panel needs to look a certain way’. And if they say: ‘There is no other person in the constituency, everyone is white’, then we send someone from the NEC, or wherever it is, who doesn’t look like them.

“Because if the panel doesn’t look like what you are trying to find, you keep getting that problem.”

The three of them plus the serving female BAME MP's:

Rushanari Ali
Rosena Allin-Khan
Thangham Debbonnaire
Rupa Huq
Shabana Mahmood
Seema Malhotra
Chi Onwurah
Yasmin Qureshi
Naz Shah
Tulip Siddiq
Valerie Vaz

Suggesting that Labour don't select BAME female candidates is utter tripe & I feel quite angry that she has even suggested it tbh !

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/k ... k-politics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:14 am

@yahyah Thanks for posting y/day - was worried ! Sounds like you have your hands full - hope things improve very soon for you both.

@Paul Good to read your posts & I agree with Tubby - post here ! I also agree with you though that the aggression on display at times is off-putting. We should be able to disagree without getting personal & abusive towards one another. I hope you'll continue to post here - after all, you were one of the original founders of the place & it's not right that you've been made to feel uncomfortable in your own home, so to speak.

@AngryAsWell Again, glad to see your post. Please, don't be pushed out - come back !

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:15 am

Greening was doing well at the annual meeting of the Association of School and College Leaders...until she started to justify new grammar schools.

TES‏Verified account @tes 4m4 minutes ago
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Justine Greening asked q about grammars. Answers and murmur of disquiet/some heckles from floor #ascl2017

Richard Vaughan‏ @RichardVaughan1 4m4 minutes ago
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Headteachers jeering @JustineGreening during her defence of grammar schools #ascl2017

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:18 am

And.

Nat Governors' Assoc‏ @NGAMedia 1m1 minute ago
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Great question on how evidence fits with extension of selection: SoS can't give adequate response, using flawed choice argument #ascl2017

Yes, it's not the parents who choose but the schools. Parent choice has always been somewhat of a myth - they have a preference which may or may not be satisfied.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:19 am

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... s-gap.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Output Gap and the Innovations Gap

Mainlymacro

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:31 am

http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pi ... -voted-on/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:43 am

StephenDolan wrote:Is it cynical to wonder about the sudden referencing of the police, Rahman and electoral fraud by the BBC?

What is this about?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:44 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39226437" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 11:52 am

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/p ... h-10000374" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Private care firms' shareholders 'cash in' from £2billion extra funding in the Budget

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:11 pm

Barbara Keeley

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:17 pm

pk1 wrote:@yahyah Thanks for posting y/day - was worried ! Sounds like you have your hands full - hope things improve very soon for you both.

@Paul Good to read your posts & I agree with Tubby - post here ! I also agree with you though that the aggression on display at times is off-putting. We should be able to disagree without getting personal & abusive towards one another. I hope you'll continue to post here - after all, you were one of the original founders of the place & it's not right that you've been made to feel uncomfortable in your own home, so to speak.

@AngryAsWell Again, glad to see your post. Please, don't be pushed out - come back !

I endorse these comments

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:18 pm

StephenDolan wrote:Is it cynical to wonder about the sudden referencing of the police, Rahman and electoral fraud by the BBC?

The Indie has also resurrected an electoral fraud story:

Two Conservative activists have accused the party of “telling lies” over allegations it broke election laws in a number of key seats in the lead-up the 2015 General Election.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 21731.html

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:20 pm

#Danny Shaw

The number of fires in prisons in England and Wales has reached record levels, according to official figures....
Last year there were 2,580 fire incidents in prisons - that's around 50 fires every week.
Number of prison fires is double the total two years ago and is up by a-third on the total for 2015.
The prison fire figures just add to the growing amount of evidence indicating how unstable and volatile prisons are.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:28 pm

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk ... t-end-here" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Conservatives' manifesto problems won't end here

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:34 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ng-problem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Forget Brexit: housing is the key issue for Labour
Phil McDuff

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 12:37 pm

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ng-problem

Forget Brexit: housing is the key issue for Labour
Phil McDuff

It is certainly something Labour could make "their" issue.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 1:07 pm

Not easy. The classic model included lots of lower middle class and skilled working class on good money so the borrowing for the construction was paid back. Even today loads of those will be buying.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 1:34 pm

Yet again, JFK's "we do not choose to do these things because they are easy, but because they are hard" comes to mind.

Post by **adam** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 2:24 pm

Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins

Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial

ETA the full judgement is here.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 2:41 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yet again, JFK's "we do not choose to do these things because they are easy, but because they are hard" comes to mind.

And incredibly expensive up front. And likely to be spend disproportionately in London and the South East.

Post by **adam** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 2:58 pm

Galloway said to be considering standing in Manchester Gorton by-election.

Story here.

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:00 pm

adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins
Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial
ETA the full judgement is here.

Such good news

This case should finally caution people to keep within the law even on twitter and/or facebook.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:15 pm

adam wrote:Galloway said to be considering standing in Manchester Gorton by-election.

Story here.

He stunk out London Mayoral election, trying to make it into a referendum on "Zionism". He'll do the same in Gorton, while continually trying to make out he's the heir to Gerald Kaufman.

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:20 pm

pk1 wrote:
adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins
Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial
ETA the full judgement is here.
Such good news

This case should finally caution people to keep within the law even on twitter and/or facebook.

Love the substantial explanation of Twitter at the end.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:22 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oops.

First academy trust to lose its schools over poor standards

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first ... -rz67nqpf0

An education charity has become the first academy sponsor to give up all its state-funded schools after concerns that standards were unacceptably poor and its financial position was “unsustainable”.

The Education Fellowship Trust, which ran 12 schools with 6,500 pupils in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire and Maidenhead, is the largest academy chain to be in effect dissolved because of poor performance.

Five of its schools are rated inadequate by Ofsted and another three have been deemed to require improvement, with only four rated good by inspectors.
All 12 schools taken on inside a period of 12 months in 2012-3.

Did you say Maidenhead?

Hmm.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:29 pm

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:30 pm

adam wrote:Galloway said to be considering standing in Manchester Gorton by-election.

Story here.

He seems to want Labour to select a certain candidate - though they appear to be one of the front runners anyway.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:31 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... are_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Refugees applying to live in UK face being sent home after five years
Home Office quietly announces new policy where those applying for permanent residency face ‘safe country review’ after five years’ limited leave

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:34 pm

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/de ... ht-napping" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ian Paisley Jr on the Northern Irish election: "The DUP were caught napping

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:43 pm

pk1 wrote:@yahyah Thanks for posting y/day - was worried ! Sounds like you have your hands full - hope things improve very soon for you both.

@Paul Good to read your posts & I agree with Tubby - post here ! I also agree with you though that the aggression on display at times is off-putting. We should be able to disagree without getting personal & abusive towards one another. I hope you'll continue to post here - after all, you were one of the original founders of the place & it's not right that you've been made to feel uncomfortable in your own home, so to speak.

@AngryAsWell Again, glad to see your post. Please, don't be pushed out - come back !

Thanks pk1

ScarletGas · Post by **ScarletGas** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 3:50 pm

adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins
Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial
ETA the full judgement is here.

Another judge that is an "Enemy of the People" no doubt.

If I was Mr Justice Warby I should await an article in the Daily Fascist whose minions have been, no doubt, digging away to give us their skewed version of his background and predilections whilst this case has been going on.

Or will they ignore it completely and lie by omission again?

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 4:01 pm

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@MarksLarks
Judge has order @KTHopkins to pay £107k on account of costs + the £24,000 damages

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 10 Mar, 2017 4:34 pm

Ian Hyland‏ @HylandIan 20m20 minutes ago
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If Katie Hopkins really does say "what everyone is thinking" then my guess is she is currently saying "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"